skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>TikTok also lied under oath about where US data is stored [1]. So I’m not sure why anyone should trust anything about them even if they are sold

Whether you trust a company that has been caught lying under oath is not the same as whether a company should be allowed to operate in a country.

>Even a code and security audit would leave a lot of room for things like AI driven feeds conducting propaganda campaigns. It’s not just code or infrastructure as a point in time but also data

Perhaps so, but that does not mean that those reviews should not be conducted before taking a step as big as forcing a sale. US govt could have given Tiktok US an ultimatum to go through one before coming to this conclusion.

>In the end it comes down to trust.

Yes, absolutely. The US does not trust Tiktok because it is Chinese owned, or is it because of privacy concerns, or is it both? And in any case, would determining the extent of control not help it understand the level of exposure? Grilling people at senate or select committee hearings can be revealing and is politically exciting but there was and still is more to be done to safeguard interests of people already on the platform.
You can get a macbook pro with 128 GB of memory (for nearly $5000).

Which still implies... a 2 bit quant?
So a windows tablet would make more sense?
Hoping we see AMD Strix Halo with it's 256-bit interface crammed into an aggressively cooled fairly-thin fairly-light. But it's going to require heavy cooling to make full use of.

Heck, make it only run full tilt when on an active cooling dock. Let it run half power when unassisted.
If you want a more efficient way to practice, I’ve been working on https://deriveit.org/coding/roadmap#note-215. It’s LeetCode site that’s

-organized intelligently

-has simpler explanations than you find online

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What you are advocating for is the system that has gotten us to the point where nobody can afford housing.

You let rich interests create a situation where they make more and more money for doing nothing. In this case, sitting on downtown real estate. They use the money to manipulate the system to tilt the economy more and more in their favor. They kill off attempts to introduce rail. They fight against increasing capacity for housing or office space, because when demand goes up and supply stays the same they get higher rent for doing literally nothing but continue to own the same properties. They bribe politicians to force you back into the office downtown for no reason.

This is literally called rent-seeking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking Landlords have been doing this for thousands of years to the point it is a fundamental economic principle.

Then, when they get in trouble, and they might lose some money, you have to bail them out or they will ruin your cities. They are going to ruin the cities either way. If you bail them out they will take the money and then do none of the things they were supposed to do in exchange. They are only going to do whatever puts the most money in their pocket, and they play a long game.

Here is a counter proposal:

- Tax any vacant building at a rate high enough that any owner will be forced to put the building into use or sell it to someone who will. This applies both to buildings that are 'abandoned' as well as just sitting empty due to lack of tenants.

- Tie property tax rates directly to the rate of supply. Whenever an action is taken that artificially increases property values, increase the rates to offset that increase. If the planning commission kills a new apartment building that would increase the number of beds in part of the city by 1%, increase tax rates by 1% (1% of the current rate). This will penalize existing landlords (and homeowners) for rent-seeking and NIMBY. This can be done at the state level and the funds can be earmarked for low income housing and job programs, or parks.

- Offer tax incentives for things that lower property values but increase quality of life. These would include housing programs, railroads and stations, high density housing, etc. This would help balance out the rent seeking behavior of landlords and de-align their group interests. For example, if I own a large apartment complex and there is a proposal to build another large complex next door to mine, I am opposed to it. More housing will lower my rents. However, if I get a permanent tax cut when the new complex is built, it will not take much of a difference in tax rate for my profits to increase (since the lowering of marginal rents will very small from one building and spread over a wide area, whereas the tax benefit is concentrated in the area where I benefit). Landlords would then be forced to use their influence to try to steer new development to be near their own properties, rather than using their combined influence to kill all development.
Those are almost exactly my use cases too; my difference is that I don't watch video but I do take my notes on the ipad, writing with the pencil. This works great because documents seamlessly work between the two devices.

By far I use the MBA the most, but the ipad is much better for a small number of use cases that are worth my spending on. And for those use cases the ipad air is sufficient, especially as I can now get a larger one. That's similar to the macbook air: I'm clearly a "pro" or "power user" and it has more than sufficient oomph (note: when I type 'make' the compilation doesn't happen locally)
Large buildings with controlled ventilation offer the prospect of better control over air composition, in particular reduction of CO2 levels. As CO2 rises this could become very important.
Back in the days when most PC users lacked a mouse, people would make things to put over the F1-F12 keys (since those shortcuts tended to not be mnemonic) with what each key did with various modifiers. e.g. https://www.ebay.com/itm/276317392496

It was a neat way of surfacing lots of commands without taking up any screen-space.
"The researchers found that between 1980 and 2020, growing regions were more prone to experiencing too-cold temperatures. “The current climate, however, is characterised by too-hot conditions in every region,” they found, adding that “the vast majority of coffee regions never experience too-cold growing season temperatures”.

Article claims that between 2021 and 2023 (a span of 3 years)
these regions experienced "Too-hot conditions", prior it was too cold.

Ideal regions have climate similar to Hawaii, where it fluctuates between 16 and 28 degrees celsius, all year round.

Assuming I take the articles seriously:

Using your last 3 data points to make sweeping projections, when they counter the previous year's data doesn't seem like very good science.
Have you ever considered that people who have a single minded focus on software, might be solely good at software to the detriment of other skills?

8 hours of software development is more than enough practice for a developer. Having an employee with a well balanced life is superior to one who is unable to detach from his work.
Not only that, but reading lets you easily jump around to refresh yourself on other parts if you see something reference it much more easily, and you can choose your exact comfortable pace without having to stretch or squeeze the source material unnaturally.

I have a recurring habit of glossing over names I don't recognize when first reading them in a news article and then will frequently need to jump back to find where they were initially referenced when they get mentioned again only with their last name. While this can be a little annoying when reading, it would be far worse in a video; I can't imagine trying to scrub back to the point where someone first was mentioned. At best, the video might have captions (which I'll always have turned on), but it's a lot harder to look at a caption and remember exactly which information came before it and which came after because the text isn't all visible at once.
That’s the idea at least. I paid in 2020.
MS-DOS also supported the 80x43 or 80x50 screen modes for extra information density. On later hardware you would have SVGA-based or VESA-based text modes with even more density, though by that time DOS itself had mostly fallen out of use.
How do you get Netflix to use an external drive?
In my experience if the silence gap is set too low, any pause or silence in the song will trigger a new file for the same song, and if too big, it will sometimes lump two songs together.

It takes extra time verifying that each file is only one track and the full track.

I have opted to turn off the silence detection, record one big file of my playlist, and then use Fission to split up the file while referencing the length of each track. Audacity is a free wav editor that would work for this, but I do love Rogue Amoeba software and Fission is probably a bit quicker.

It still takes a little time but Fission does make it fairly quick and easy, and I prefer this consistent process.

So in my opinion, the auto silence separation is not a killer feature that makes ripping audio significantly easier.

Also I don't think it has the ability to automatically name files appropriately, so you still have to go back and name each individual file, which I handle as I'm splitting them.
This reminds me of this discussion on cocktails and bartender skills from a while ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36492450

"The martini may be simple, but it is not easy to make an excellent one. It's a very solid test of a bartender's skill because, unlike many drinks, ingredients alone cannot carry the cocktail. A piña colada for example, is mostly about ingredients (are you using a good coconut cream? fresh pineapple?) For the martini the chilling and dilution need to be just right. This tests the bartender's most important skill: mixing. Proper mixing of the beverage is ultimately what makes a martini."

[..]

"martinis are shockingly easy to fuck up. and this conversation is exactly the reason why the martini is a good test of a bartender's capability. being a bartender is more than putting fixed quantities of ingredients in a glass. how do you know when your martini is properly diluted, either by shaking or stirring? a good bartender will know. a bad bartender will not. a terrible bartender won't even realize dilution is crucial."

I don't really drink much and never had a martini in my life, but I thought it was pretty interesting.
I think there's a lot more pent-up demand to live in New York than (even pre-decay) St. Louis.
Murder Rates Are Plummeting. What Should We Make of It?
But a row house has a front and back door. In an office building, the entry would be in the middle. You could divide each floor up into four apartments - two long apartments stretching the width of the building, say on the East and West ends. Then two smaller apartments with windows on only one side on the North and South ends of the building.
The complaint of the interviewers would (likely) be that they want to see the candidate go through the whiteboard process, because of the reasons I gave. It's just part of the process. Writing in an editor takes away their ability to probe that process.

Don't get me wrong I think it's silly, but
You're not all that far from describing dark energy.

Gravitational attraction tends to cause the trajectories of freely-falling ("floating in empty space") masses to converge. Dark energy tends to cause the trajectories of freely-falling masses to diverge. We see this in the sky: distant galaxies are freely-falling but their trajectories are away from each other (and from us).

As far as we can tell though, the "source" of dark energy is the cosmological constant. Physical interpretations usually start by slicing spacetime into spaces aligned along the cosmological time (the scale factor). In successive spatial slices ordinary matter, radiation, dark matter, and so forth all get sparser towards the future. We treat these as a sort of fluid or gas that dilutes away with the expansion of the universe, therefore the density of each fluid at a typical point differs from spatial slice to spatial slice (it's lower in the future). The cosmological constant is constant in every spatial slice. So if we were to turn it into one of these fluids, it would not dilute or thin out over time: its density at a typical point is always the same. Representing a geometrical feature (the cosmological constant) as a space-filling fluid with certain properties makes it easier to study what happens if the cosmological constant isn't constant . (Does it fluctuate? Does it get weaker or stronger over time or in the presence of overdensities of matter?)

Cosmic inflation introduces another of these fluids that like dark energy serves to separate rather than draw together the others. It's very very strong in the early part of the universe (the inflationary epoch), but disappears very early too. In some flavours of inflation, the "inflaton" field decays into standard-model matter; in others it just decays into weaker and weaker versions of itself and by the time there are electrons, positrons and photons it's basically so weak that it's undetectable.

The inflationary epoch somewhat matches your intuition that a big source of energy pushed space apart. The most important difference (at this "explain like I'm..." level) as far as I can tell is that there was no point in space that someone in the early universe could point to as the centre or source of inflation. A gravitating object has a centre of mass, and you can point to and away from that object, i.e. there is an up and down with respect to it, because it doesn't surround you like a shell. The inflaton field was strong everywhere, there was nowhere in space "outside" it.

Here is a reasonably accessible "outreach" article on cosmic inflation: https://www.ctc.cam.ac.uk/outreach/origins/inflation_zero.ph...
any benchmarks of how it stacks up to m1, m2 and m3?
Yeah, I don't think about charging my iPad throughout the day, and I constantly use it. Maybe it's in the low 20s late at night, but it never bothered me.
Even if taking raising market prices into account, your estimate for the RAM module price is waaaaaaay off.

You can get 8GB of good quality DDR5 DIMMs for 40$, there is no way in hell that Apple is paying anywhere near that.

Going from 8 to 16GBs is probably somewhere between 3-8$ purely in material costs for Apple, not taking into account any other costs associated
If you don't want your art to exist beyond you, destroy it. Once you die, whatever remains is fair game.
Financially it's kind of a no brainer at this point. Myself and a bunch of family members are customers of SDGE and the lowest price anyone is paying is now $0.50/kWh and the highest is $0.91/kWh.

The household paying the latter just installed 15kW of solar panels and a battery bank to cut their costs to the $16/mo hookup fee and it's not even the height of summer yet. It's almost to the point where their backup propane generator is cheaper to run than pay for utility power! The solar/battery installation will pay for itself in under five years assuming no price increases (hah!).

Everyone is building it at every level of the producer/consumer curve.
Sure, and they were widely criticized for this. Again, the assertion I was responding to is that Apple does this ”laughably” more than competitors.

Is an occasional statement that they get pushback on really worse than what other brands do?

As an example from a competitor, take a look at the recent firestorm over Intel’s outlandish anti-AMD marketing:

https://wccftech.com/intel-calls-out-amd-using-old-cores-in-...
Ask HN: Will a future AVP provide a cure for people with eye alignment problems?
It seems that a more sophisticated passthrough system could provide such a cure.
Good point. For a counter point, the German Blitzkrieg helped them get France in WW2.
QD-OLED is an engineering improvement, i.e. combining existing researched technology to improve the result product. I wasn't able to find a good source on what exactly it improves in efficiency, but it's not a fundamental improvement in OLED electrical→optical energy conversion (if my understanding is correct.)

In general, OLED screens seem to have an efficiency around 20≈30%. Some research departments seem to be trying to bump that up [https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05671-x] which I'd be more hopeful on…

…but, honestly, at some point you just hit the limits of physics. It seems internal scattering is already a major problem; maybe someone can invent pixel-sized microlasers and that'd help? More than 50-60% seems like a pipe dream at this point…

…unless we can change to a technology that fundamentally doesn't emit light, i.e. e-paper and the likes. Or just LCD displays without a backlight, using ambient light instead.
Frame additional walls within the room that include additional plumbing lines, branching from existing lines as needed. Granted, you lose space but at least you'll have a fully compliant residence, no?
We use PLEX for long trips in the car for the kids. Like 24 hour drives. We drive to Florida in the winter and the iPads easily run out of space after we’ve downloaded a season or two of Adventure Time and Daniel Tiger.

I could fit more if I didn’t insist on downloading everything 1080p I guess.
These specific model of tablets won't ever get MacOS support. Apple will tell you when you're allowed to run MacOS on a tablet, and they'll make you buy a new tablet specifically for that.
The article mentions this:

> In Texas, many batteries today are actually increasing carbon-dioxide emissions, according to one analysis. That’s because operators focus on maximizing revenue and sometimes charge with coal or gas power.

Sounds like they're still using using environmental externalities to subsidize their costs.

Regardless, the results are the same. Batteries are the future.
Good article! TL;DR: Bad music goes away for lack of interest, often after decades. Good music survives because new artists seek to learn and imitate the style of the true greats. Takeaway: Promote the new greats and don't worry about the bad stuff; it takes care of itself.
Game pass was an obvious piece of gamer bait.

It is current high value for consumers, but that’s all it is, and in cases where MA is just a third party vendor to the publishers, high value for consumers is bad for the publishers. If it is ever deemed a success, that value will diminish extremely fast.
Isn't 15% more battery life a huge improvement on a device already well known for long battery life?
A Swiss newspaper interviewed the workers - they said they liked it a lot more because a) they get to work regular hours but in the shade and b) they have more space, since the traffic goes above them. On a normal worksite they have barely a few metres, since the rest of the road has traffic flowing on it still.

https://www.nzz.ch/schweiz/astra-bridge-so-funktioniert-die-...
Need Your Inputs on Outbounds
Hey,

I am Rohit, the co-founder of Worker AI. At Worker AI, we are working on automating outbound sales entirely at scale.

The goal is to build a whole ecosystem with LinkedIn and email automation for targeted outbound sales.

If you are a sales rep or BDR, I would love to have a conversation with you sometime, as your input or feedback could be really helpful for us in improving our product.

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The Samsung Galaxy S II (a phone) released late 2011 had official lineage 14.1. There are unofficial builds of lineage 19 today.

That's a particularly good situation, I don't really know how was Android back then, but in any case Android still allowed installing alternative browsers, allowing devices to be useful long after updates stopped. Firefox was still installable on android 4.4 recently enough. So there's that.

But again, that's still just bad either way, I expect better from hardware. 4 years is awfully short and I don't quite care if Android was better or worse. Apple controls everything, how come it was only capable of 4 years of updates? It's unacceptable, and the usual two or three years of updates on stock Android too, of course.
Potholes are traffic calming devices you don't even have to pay to install.
The thing that sold many people on the idea of crypto was that in their minds, government couldn't regulate it or use a central bank to impact its value. I'm not sure why they thought this (maybe "because computers") but one way (through securities or commodities laws) or the other (new legislation), they're going to regulate it.
You aren’t wrong but businesses aren’t in the market to optimize for 1% their customers
If someone is claiming “‹foo› has always ‹barred›”, then I don't think it's fair to demand a 10 year cutoff on counter-evidence.
Be honest, that 8GB computer isn't running MacOS, is it.
Programming is a very small part of the battle of being an effective software engineer.

It leaves out:

- communicating

- teaching

- dealing with ambiguity

- navigating politics

- working cross-functionally

Most high level individual contributors at large tech companies don't even code.
I suppose ideally you'd want it to be written on Linux first, if you're that kinda person - but the market is probably on Mac?
sorry but didn't understand, what exactly is this replication stream, are you talking about the wal logs? any ideas why postgres hasn't implemented this natively if it is better?
Those are the options, yes. Or a mixture.

Older choices affect newer choices, and consistent choices become culture.

Once upon a time, stock chart makers made an arbitrary choice influenced by older choices that had become culture. Those older choices being a general association with fortune, and a specific association with loss of money. (With intermediate steps, I think, but I'm being brief.) And those associations were different for different groups. Now the chart colors are part of culture too.

A choice being arbitrary doesn't mean it was random. You can trace the influence here.

But even if it had been random, it's culture now. Money in red has implications, and the implications vary.
Agriculture and, more importantly, grazing land can be frequently integrated with solar and wind.

That wilderness isn’t going to be there anyway if we don’t address climate change as fast as we can.
This has been around for so long I wonder if there's a patent that is in the way of apple implementing it.

Even though I tend to like Apple gear: if there is such a patent in the way I'm sure they'll add this once the patent expires, and call it a revolutionary development.
Discussion [0] (19 points, 2 hours ago, 9 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40285915
We have such options in Fury too. We support register classes. In such cases, such string will be encoded with a varint id. It's kind of dict encoding. But not all users like to register classes. Meta string will try to reduce space cost when such dict encoding are not available.

Your suggestions are great. I should clarify why dict encoding can't be used to recude cost.

As for performance, it won't be an issue. The string for meta encoding are limited, we can cache the encoded result. So it's not in critical path